The moon's orbit isn't a perfect circle. Instead, it's more stretched out, kind of like an oval, which means its distance from Earth varies by about 30,000 miles (48,000 km). The surface of the moon ...

March’s “worm moon” sets behind Rocca Calascio castle and village in L’Aquila, Italy. Photograph by Lorenzo Di Cola, NurPhoto/Getty Images Earth’s moon phases cycle from month to month, waning and ...

The Moon has long been considered geologically inactive, its surface seemingly untouched for millions of years. However, ...

A complex of fires started from a lightning event on the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest in the vicinity of the Rogue ...

The provisionally named S/2025 U1 is so small it had gone unnoticed by probes and telescopes for the past 40 years.

While science has long explained the natural phenomenon — a lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth comes between the Sun and the ...

In a bold, strategic move for the U.S., acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy announced plans on August 5 to build a nuclear fission reactor for deployment on the lunar surface in 2030. Doing so would ...

The Moon’s largest sea may have been even stormier than its name implies, according to the first new lunar samples since the then-Soviet Union’s Luna mission in 1976. In December 2020, China’s Chang’E ...

Faint hydrogen signals from the cosmic Dark Ages may soon help determine the mass of dark matter particles. Simulations suggest future Moon-based observatories could distinguish between warm and cold ...

Nearly 150 years after Alexander Graham Bell made Earth’s first phone call, technologists are attempting to bring cellular ...